yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] Coedy:
It really doesnt.... it is just 7 screws and pushing a pin/small screw driver into the mic hole after you haver removed the mic guard and then refitting everything. (then making sure the mic guard is refitted properly once everything is back together by looking in the mic hole, you should see the entire hole of the mic guard and a little block inside which is the mic). :D

If your unsure how to do any of that, even after reading the simple instructions above, I recommend you dont take apart your £300 phone yourself...:rolleyes:

Also this fix is posted on page 8 on this topic

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1127103&page=8

along with other software fixes. But like you say. 5 minutes work and its even better! and you get to keep noise cancelation! :D
[Galaxy S II General] arashi:
Just did the same thing - removed rubber from lower mic. Tested - now seems I can really use speakerphone =D
[Galaxy S II General] TechWizard:
Many thanks!!!

You have helped make my phone so much more perfect!!! thank you so so much!! I had to use a stanley knife but hey ho it worked and only one scarred finger, but well worth it!! :)
[Galaxy S II General] bazzag:
I assume it also resolves the echo issue too? It's discussed in details here, disabling noise cancellation fix it as well.

I would really appreciate if someone does a step-by-step picture guide. :)

Edit: Anyone knows a ROM that lets you to disable Noise Reduction by default? I've already tried the fix in VillainTweaks but that didn't work for me.
[Galaxy S II General] phi770:
i have the original samsung black soft rubber case, i had to make the charging hole bigger because even the small microusb connector wouldn't fit otherwise. so i made a bigger mic hole too.

i don't hear any echos.
[Galaxy S II General] bazzag:
You don't hear the echoes, but the people calling you hear their own echo unless you disable NR.
[Galaxy S II General] phi770:
nope, calling works well for me, noone i'm phoning too complains. i'm on the offical cyanogen 7.1 with radio ki4 right now and there is no way to disable NR afaik...
[Galaxy S II General] qsec:
did you removed it completely?
[Galaxy S II General] icecubix2:
YES IT WORKS! AT LAST!! :)

Thanks, phi770!!!
[Galaxy S II General] speedys4:
I made It this modification last month, there is some photos, I removed rubber from first(main microphone) and enlarge the both holes.

see photos...
[Galaxy S II General] wmfreak:
All I did was enlarge the main mike to about 1,5mm and totally cover the noise cancellation mike.

Works like a charm,

G
[Galaxy S II General] speedys4:
I will get back rubers to microphones, and make bigger holes in both rubbers.

now its crystal clear sound :)
[Galaxy S II General] tofic:
I had to do the same on mine: cutting rubber and enlarge the hole, now it sounds good.
[Galaxy S II General] vinay.habib:
Congrats on the DIY.

But can you also help me on increasing my Bluetooth Mic Volume levels?

I've tried the service mode option which is not a permanent fix and I don't find it good.

Thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gustavgesar:
Hello,

I have a mayor problem with flashing my HTC Desire S.

I have S-Off and the phone is rooted (i have the superuser app and can allow superuser clearence).

But, when I flash a new rom it all goes well until I restart the phone. The the phone gets stuck at the HTC boot screen (the white one with the HTC logo).

I have tried Miui, CM7 and some Saga Rom. Both with Rom Manager and with a manual recovery. I have also tried Boot Manager without any result. When I flash I wipe the memory, cache and Dalvik cache.

The only thing to do then is to restore a backup and go back to the original rom.

So, please help me. What am I doing wrong. I have swiped the internet for answears without any result.

My Phone:

Android version: 2.3.5

HTC Sense-version: 3.0

Softwarenumber: 2.10.401.5

Kernel-version: 2.6.35.10-g9ac6c7a

Basebandversion: 20.4801.30.0822U_3822.10.08.04_M

Versionnumber: 2.10.401.5 CL156318 release-keys

Thank you!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theonew:
How long do you wait (when it's at the HTC screen)?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gustavgesar:
At the most I wait for about 30 minutes.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theonew:
Well you aren't doing anything wrong, so you'll just have to continue wiping data and flashing roms until one works.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gustavgesar:
Allright. Thank you. The strange thing is that the roms seams to work on other phones of the same model. What could differ from my phone?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theonew:
Are you sure all the roms you are flashing are made for your device?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gustavgesar:
I think so. I have been downloading them from Rom Manager and XDA and verified that they are for Desire S or Saga. Could it be anything wrong with my HBoot version?
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] DooMLoRD:
THIS IS FOR ADVANCED/EXPERIENCED USERS ONLY

[ info ]

hello devs/users this should be a useful tool (its just a small CMD/batch script) for u guys...

so it will basically pack zImage and ramdisk into kernel.sin and then create an FTF which can be flashed via FlashTool...

[ requirements ]

windows

may be Java installed

[ supported devices ]

Xperia X10 ONLY

[ usage ]

place the compiled kernel zImage & compressed ramdisk (cpio.gz) in the same folder as these files

rename zImage to "image" (without quotes)

rename compressed ramdisk to "ramdisk" (without quotes)

edit the BUILD-IT.bat file and modify the following entries:

echo branding: DooMKernel-v06-BootManager-v1.4 >> manifest.mf
echo Created-By: DooMLoRD >> manifest.mf
echo version: 2.3.3 >> manifest.mf
ren kernel.jar X10_2.3.3_DooMKernel-v06-BootManager-v1.4.ftf

to whatever you want, as this is what will be displayed in FlashTool FTF window

once you are done editing that file save it

now double click on BUILD-IT.bat to launch kernel.sin & FTF build process

at end you will get a FTF which can be flashed via FlashTool

[ download link ]

kernel.sin and FTF creator v1.0

[ other useful links ]

[DEV][TOOL] kernel.sin unpacker

[How-To] Make custom bootscreen/bootlogo (image to rle)/(rle to image)

Enjoy!
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] adrianom:
DoomLord,

Very nice...

In theory this method work to all sin files (partition), right? I only need to have the partition attributes, right?

You know how to get the attributes for all partition?
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] DooMLoRD:
yes

check the_laser's thread for info related to partition table...

BUT DO SO AT UR OWN RISK
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] adrianom:
Thanks, I found.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] pheel:
but I can't found....

anyways... DooM does this compile the kernel? or does I just combine zimage + ramdisk?

thanks.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] realunited123:
Just combines zimage + ramdisk.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] adrianom:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1253277
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] CosmicDan:
How is the Bin2Elf and Bin2Sin different to mkbootimg? I ask because mkbootimg gives us some more options that we don't have with the tools by the_laser e.g. specifying the kernel commandline.

EDIT: Basically I want to learn more about the differences between boot.img and kernel.sin, I've crawled XDA for days but I don't think I can piece it all together. From what I understand boot.img is for fastboot/bootloader phones which the X10 isn't, though I am trying to figure out how to convert a boot.img to kernel.sin while retaining the command-line.

Boot.img seems to have only minor differences, the header starts with ANDROID and some other text such as the kernel command-line but I can't find any plain text in kernel.sin or loader.sin so I'm not sure where I can inject/remove some bytes to make the boot.img work with flashtool. Apart from the header the only other difference is random machine code two-thirds or so down, my guess is that's were the init.rd has been strapped on the end of the kernel.

Anyway, I tried flashing a boot.img in flashtool which I built based on the way custombootimg.mk does, but the flashtool freezes when it gets to kernel, I know that's probably silly but I hope there is some more material on the web or buried in XDA about the work you and the_laser have done that I could read up on.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] DooMLoRD:
If u just want kernel command-line u can define it in defconfig whole compiling kernel...

Refer to the_laser's thread to get more info on SIN files...
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] lostcaprica:
i try change bootlog image..

it's work!! but not root...
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] CosmicDan:
Yep, looks like I'll have to go that route. Would of been nice to specify MTD partitions without having to compile from source but oh well, it's a do-once kind of thing anyway. Thanks for the tip.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] sj8023ld:
Thx...

It will be better if the tool support more devices like ARC/NEO/PEO etc.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] aZuZu:
DooMLoRD if you get chance could you test?

v0.1 of tool :D
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] Apif Fuloh:
I've edited built.bat as you suggest, but the output is just a kernel.sin and manifest.mf but not create files FTF, why is there anything wrong with that? Can you explain in more detail?
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] championswimmer:
you do not have java installed ???

btw you can use this

kernel kitchen
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] Apif Fuloh:
I will try it
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] jf85:
i see u got many brains so i ask...

with thies tools u show.

is it posseble to get an ftf file like ST18i_4.1.A.0.562_(1252-5332).ftf firmware but with root and cwm installed alreddy ?

If so please send me one.. im just goin crazy on having to reflash my device then installing cwm and root plus other things all the time...

Right now im up to 43 times installing over and over (im trying to get a rom to work) ( but always get it too loop the logo screen always)
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] sammyroid:
REQUEST :(

can U please Xplain me the step to create img to sin pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee................

and i installed jdk and android sdk

and since my phone doesnt go in fastboot mode I want to change my kernel via flashboot mode

so the file must be ftf and sin format .

SO PLEASE ............PLEASE .............. PLEASE help me .................
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] tjsooley:
Will this work on a r800?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] chmcke01:
Unfortunately, I am not eligible for upgrade until Thursday, meaning I am missing out on all of these great deals on the SGS2. I want to get one as soon as I am eligible but I was just wondering if anyone knew of any sales on the phone in early to mid December?

The regular price at my local Walmart (which is where I would probably upgrade if I can't find it cheaper elsewhere) is $150 so any sales that lowers the price below that would be great and I would be willing to wait a bit longer for a better price on the phone.

So...anyone heard of any deals that don't end before the 1st or start soon after?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] HTC Chris:
Target has it for $99.99
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] GalaxyMaster:
I upgraded an entire year early by complaining about my ****ty atrix problems. I'm sure they will let you upgrade a week early.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jimmyzshack:
Amazon has this phone for .01 till monday. You have to add a line to get the price but you could just drop your other line on thr when the contract is up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] chmcke01:
I can but...

I did complain when it was a month early and they did allow me to upgrade early. However, they said it was IMPOSSIBLE to change my official upgrade date and all they can do is notate the account that an early upgrade has been approved. Meaning, if I go to Walmart, Radio Shack, etc they will still just see my December 1st upgrade date and won't let me upgrade.

In sum, I CAN upgrade, but only at the AT&T store or over the phone with AT&T. So, if they drop their price I can upgrade early but I would rather pay $150 in a few days than pay $200 now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] chmcke01:
Do they still?

I knew they had it for $99 a few weeks ago but I thought that was just a special deal for one week only. Do they still have it?

EDIT: I just called my closest Target and it is $150 there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] rxnelson:
The sticker at Walmart today said $98.88 and get a $100 Walmart gift card thru 12/03 I believe.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] chmcke01:
Maybe find a link?

Do you think you could try to find a link for that? I have looked a little and can't see it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Kadin:
Yeah I currently see the price of $169.99 with the $100 giftcard.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] rxnelson:
Yea. Maybe the tags were old. I didn't ask....just browsing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] chmcke01:
Check the ad...

Actually I just checked their ad online and from Nov 27-Dec 3rd the phone is $100 and you get a $100 gift card with purchase. I will be there on the 1st!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] rxnelson:
Glad I could help. I hate missing deals.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dream5hift:
Good looking out for the Walmart deal! Im thinking about it. Hope there's another cyber Monday deal.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] chmcke01:
Bad news for me :(

Well I got some bad news today...my actual upgrade date is December 6th, but two AT&T reps told me that upgrades go by month and not by specific day, so they told me I could actually upgrade at any major retailer as early as December 1st.

So, I was counting on that deal at Wal-Mart but when I called them to double check that I could upgrade on the 1st I was told that I could not upgrade any earlier than the 6th and that I was misinformed.

So, if anyone hears of any deals that are still going to be valid on the 6th please post it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] gr8hairy1:
Just had a friend get this phone at Walmart and just like you said. Funny part was he didn't even know about it. Went there planning to spend $100 and got $100 back.

Sent from my páhhōniē
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] msgfromside3:
I ordered from Amazon for 1 cent yesterday. ETA is Wednesday. Can't wait. The deal might be still available (at least it was in this morning).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ferrocene:
**** I just bought a 2nd one on Amazon for a penny. Family plan will save me money too.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bamiao:
Was this from a local brick and mortar story? It still shows $169.99 online....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] TwinSac:
Walmart online is not Walmart. Its another company that works with them called LetsTalk Inc.

The brick and mortar stores have the phone for 98.88
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jimmyzshack:
I ended up getting one from sams for 96 cents. think today is the last day for it. Also the activation is refunded to you after 30 days.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mrsixonetwo:
I want to see the T-Mobile free content in the market but how do I get it to show?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] DirtyPISTOLA:
I would check out a app called market enabler it spoofs the market to thinking your on a certain carrier not just Tmobile they have sprint Verizon Rodgers all of them pretty much.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jamadio:
Look for this line in your build.prop:

ro.com.google.clientidbase.am=

Make sure it has the .am at the end.

What is after the equal sign, change it to: android-tmobile-us

So it should ultimately look like this:

ro.com.google.clientidbase.am=android-tmobile-us
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mrsixonetwo:
Couldnt find the clientbase id line with .am on cm7
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mike7169:
I changed it to this ro.com.google.clientidbase.am=android-tmobile-us like you suggested. I rebooted my phone and the market still doesn't say T-Mobile. Do i need to do something else?

---------- Post added at 03:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:06 PM ----------

Never mind it worked. I just had to force close the market a few times
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Ajj915:
Worked like a charm. Had to add .am to that line but changed it. Robooted and poof!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jamadio:
If you don't have it in your build.prop, you can simply add it.
[HTC Titan] p1ceus:
Hello guys, I just noticed strange bug/behaviour. If my battery is around 10%, touch screen is not respondig as it should (also touch buttons). I have to tap like 10 times on some tile to open it and then tap another 10 times on back button or home button to jump of from app. As soon as I connected the charger, phone is behave normal, like new :)

Does somebody else notice the same behaviour or its just me?

P.S. Tried to reboot phone twice. Battery saver was off.
[HTC Titan] drupad2drupad:
Can you check under settings -> applications -> Background tasks?

It more looks like plenty of apps are trying to sync up or use the resources. I might be wrong, but this did happen to me even at about 55% battery. But not as bad as 10 taps. I just felt the app launching was a lil slower than normal when I had ample background tasks.
[HTC Titan] p1ceus:
Didn't know about "Background tasks", thanks :)

Currently I have only "HTC Hub" there. I will go and check this setting next time when I occur this problem.

But anyway, shouldn't reboot kill all background apps? :confused:
[HTC Titan] drupad2drupad:
Reboot surely will kill all background apps. But these background apps are different to other OS. They are those that will 'start on boot'. So after reboot just in few seconds, they will get to their business as usual.

I love this 'background' task feature! No other OS does it so efficiently as Windows.

The good thing is if you check that place often, you will know what apps are 'going to run'. It doesn't mean they are running all the time. It tends to indicate the capability of them to run.

So as you said you just have HTC Hub, which is same on mine. However, when you to go 'advanced' option on that same page, you will see a list of greyed out apps that are going to run in background and you can't kill them. Reason being these apps need to be told about not running in background by entering them individually.

See if that greyed out list has some huge apps. I downloaded this gMaps thing from market and although I just looked for maps once (a day ago) since then, it's been running. It's because it kept on looking for my GPS co-ordinates. Now that dint freeze my phone (1.5 Ghz, I know!) but it drained battery quicker. Changing attributes within the app, removed it from greyed list and happy days!

In a nutshell, very intelligent task management. You can choose what can run and can't run while your screen is off! :D + you get benefit of battery saver option if you use that so you can choose who can connect to 3g network and who can't while you are not looking at your screen!

PS: whole point of that long post was : Most likely it's not a background task that's hogging your processor, but it's worth looking under advanced and you might know what app was it.
[HTC Titan] p1ceus:
Hey, that was a long post ;) Thanks for clarifying. I just checked Advanced tab and there are only HTC hub and some Media something (I have it in Czech so don't know the exact name in english:))

Anyway I will keep my eye on that menu and in case of any issue I will check it and we will see :)
[HTC Titan] p1ceus:
OK guys, here is the update. It's still happening :/ Everytime battery drops under 10% phone cannot be almost used. I have to tap everything 10 times to get it done. Checking background task was not helpfull, only HTC Hub is running (even if I kill it its the same).

So...I don't know...maybe its a bug (some power-saving feature thats is not configured properly?). I was used to behaviour when my mobile works even with no battery left like fully charged. No change in behaviour...
[HTC Titan] drupad2drupad:
As a last resort - try a hard reset. I've got many issues fixed that way.

However, can I ask how closer to the release did you get this phone? Here in the UK there seems to be two separate batches dispatched. One which was at the release - which is buggy batch. I got my new phone sorted from someone I knew at the store and so far not a single problem from the earlier handset is seen. Battery is drastically better too (it was better on earlier one already, but this is very pleasing!)

Try hard reset, if that doesn't solve it, I would recommend to swap it if you can.
[HTC Titan] silencer_:
Hello everyone,

I am facing the exact same issue on my HTC Titan - when battery is low (battery saver turns on), touchscreen becomes unresponsive. This is very annoying since it usually happens when i get an incoming call and i cannot answer it.

Did anybody try hard-resetting the phone in order to solve this issue?

Thanks for the answers!

Regards
[HTC Titan] dr.alkaiser:
Hello there... I have the same problems too. I don't try to do hard rest for my titan. It is very annoying for me. Also some time my touchscreen becomes unresponsive even the battery charging is more than 50%...
[HTC Titan] doesntexist:
Yeah, I get this issue too, it makes the phone unusable until you get to a charger. I find that it comes in stages, it sometimes is really bad then works for a few seconds, then stops again.

I have checked all my background tasks and nothing is really running.
[HTC Titan] MaruFas:
I have this issue too. I got this phone only yesterday, and when my battery reached 10%, touchscreen became unresponsible.
[HTC Titan] drupad2drupad:
Guys I think I've mentioned this in the FAQs thread, but ..

Everyone with this issue - please tick the box under battery saver, where it says 'automatically start.... '

If you phone goes below 25% without battery saver ON, it will lag/freeze - the screen response.

However with battery saver on, you will be able to use it till you go below 5% or even 3% when it gives you the 'critical battery' warning.

This is HTC screwing with us!
[HTC Titan] also1989:
mine has the completely opposite problem!! when the phone is charging, the screen becomes very unusable, in ex. i press the phone tile, the screen registers my tap, but it understands that i pressed the tile below or next to the one i really pressed. or i happen to scroll down or up, the phone hesitates for a second and then scrolls but it is very jumpy and jittery, unlike normal use. some times it doesn't even register my taps 2 or maybe 3 times in a row!!

the only workaround i've found is not to use the phone when charging:p

is this happening because of a faulty charger, maybe the phone is experiencing a short circuiting situation??

(i forgot to mention that i have the phone only for a week!!)

thanks
[HTC Titan] doesntexist:
I have battery saver enabled and even with the heart icon in the info bar at the top, the screen is still unresponsive.
[HTC Titan] xheroxkefx:
Same here! i thought it was just my device that was dead or something, even since it's only 2 months old!
[HTC Titan] doesntexist:
I did a hard reset and it solved the problem, it must have been something messing it up.
[HTC Titan] iPriDvI:
Nope...I have tried Hard Rests...ROM Changes etc...but its still the same problem..

Does anyone here think its a hardware problem ? or something else?

Any geek suggestion would be helpful
[HTC Titan] dequint:
Send it back to htc, let them repair it?

Sent from my HTC using Board Express
[HTC Titan] LotsOfCrap:
Hi, I also have a problem with non-responsive screens but only in specific areas and doesn't have to be 10% percent or lower.

Ex: It happens only when the keyboard is up and the buttons on the bottom are very difficult to press!

I'll provide pictures soon

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Phone: HTC Titan X310e

Custom rom: Dynamics 2.0b full unlock 7.10.8862 (ultrashot)
[HTC Titan] pmdci:
That happened to me today. Then I did a hard reset and now my phone won't go past the carrier logo (the one after the HTC logo, and before the windows Phone logo)